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Its maybe not the most interesting data, but I did a little study looking at how likely it is for a team finishing at a certain position one year, to finish at any given position the next year (its based on all seasons post-lockout). For me this was interesting because I was wondering how often...

First rankings for top couple of rounds...Let me know what you think. 1. Jack Hughes (C) USA — 98 2. Kaapo Kakko (RW) Finland — 92 3. Bowen Byram (LHD) Canada — 91 4. Alex Turcotte (C) USA — 90 5. Matthew Boldy (LW) USA — 89 6. Trevor Zegras (C/W) USA — 88 7. Vasili Podkolzin (RW) Russia —...

MY TOP 31 DRAFT 2019 I did this last season too. My main purpose is to watch these kids play, form my own opinion -- stick my neck out if you want -- and carefully create my own ranking, so that I can look back at it in 2-3 years, 5 years and even 10 years and see what I got right and what I...

I know the series is over. I know we won, and the next series is coming up tonight, and this is mostly irrelevant now. But *something* happened on this play and it's been bugging me not understanding exactly what it was. Dougie Hamilton has his weaknesses, but he's not a quitter. And Rod...

:devils 1. Jack Hughes :rangers 2. Kaapo Kakko :hawks 3. Bowen Byram :avs 4. Alex Turcotte :kings 5. Kirby Dach :wings 6. Vasili Podkolzin :sabres 7. Dylan Cozens :edmonton 8. Matthew Boldy :ducks2 9. Trevor Zegras :nucks 10. Victor Soderstrom :flyers 11. Peyton Krebs :wild 12. Cam York...

Hey folks, I recently ran a study on home ice advantage in the playoffs dating back to 2016. I posted it to a new website (link in my bio) as a blog-style article with additional info related to sports betting. I figure stat junkies might be interested in this whether or not they are gamblers...

Motivation: As a Red Wings fan, I've experienced the entitlement of a team capable of staying competitive for over a decade, followed by the unfamiliar frustration of a team that's not used to being bad. My fanbase is split between those [rightfully] wanting to win games because of pro sports'...

I previously ranked the top 10 players in the NHL at the midway mark of the season in an article here: Top 10 players at each position at the mid-way mark Now given that game 82 was played last night and the playoffs are still a few days away, it looks like the perfect time to re-rank all the...

*Reminder: I do not include goaltenders* 1. C Jack Hughes 2. RW Kaapo Kakko 3. C Dylan Cozens 4. C Kirby Dach 5. RW Vasily Podkolzin 6. LHD Bowen Byram 7. C Alex Turcotte 8. C Trevor Zegras 9. LW Matthew Boldy 10. C Peyton Krebs 11. C Ryan Suzuki 12. RW Arthur Kaliyev 13. C Raphael Lavoie 14...

By request, cross-posting this to FBOH from a main board thread Hurricanes attendance trend in a series of images: This is of course a global view, which shows the overall "bottom out and rebound" trend that goes along with having not played a playoff game since 2009. But the real action is...

My top 10 list (not in a definitive order, but in a sort of order): Tikkanen-Gretzky-Kurri (Edmonton Oilers) Aka Finnish Sandwich. I don’t know if it was even the best of Gretzky’s lines, but a very well balanced version of the Oilers’ top line it was in my opinion; one offensive wizard and...

As I promised in the RFA/prospect write-up, UFA players from the KHL are also getting a write-up from me, so here it is. Although I must say that with UFAs it is much harder to make predictions, as it's almost impossible to guess the final destination, so a lot of stuff written here is just my...

Currently, there are only 10 active players who have ever scored 100 points in a season: -Joe Thornton -Sidney Crosby -Alex Ovechkin -Evgeni Malkin -Connor McDavid -Patrick Kane -Nikita Kucherov -Claude Giroux -Nicklas Backstrom -Eric Staal However, with the increased scoring this year, there...

This game up in the GT thread last night and I want to explain why Canada is far ahead of the US in rolling this out. https://www.tsn.ca/tsn-4k-broadcast-schedule-1.900579 TV Schedule for Sportsnet 4K As you can see both of Canada's sports networks are doing more and more games and next...

Kakko has surpassed Hughes for me for the 2nd time this year. My list for this year seems to be settling, earlier this year I wasn’t confident of my 1st round and was always shuffling around players but lately it’s pretty compact. I don’t see much changing soon unless I’m blown away by a...

March 2019 Draft Rankings 1. Kakko 2. Hughes 3. Turcotte 4. Dach 5. Byram 6. Krebs 7. Zegras 8. Cozens 9. Podkolzin 10. Boldy 11. York 12. McMichael 13. Lavoie 14. Dorofeyev 15. Kaliyev 16. Newhook 17. Pelletier 18. Soderstrom 19. Tomasino 20.Heinola 21. Broberg 22. Suzuki 23. Caufield 24...

I thought it would be neat thing to take a look at the early European players who got attention from North Americans. Players that were put on negotiaion lists of NHL clubs, were invited to training camps or just generally were commented on that they could play in the NHL. When time permits I...

March is very soon upon us, and us armchair-GMs have now done our jobs: stressing over the moves the GMs of all our favourite teams have or have not made, causing us endless pain and terrifying the living daylights out of us. ‘Are we going to pay for the privilege of seeing Cody Ceci wear our...

When seeing the hurricane speed with which the Lightning seems to be crashing into the playoffs, I wondered which team was the quickest to clinch the playoffs in the history of the NHL. Well, since 1942. I asked the question on Twitter, but there was no definite answer. If the mountain will not...

First, I apologize if (a) this is common knowledge; or (b) someone else has already done this. I'm pretty new to hockey stats, though I've been a fan of the game for a long time. I searched, but didn't find something similar. It seems to me that short-handed goals ought to count as far as a...